Notice as to an Area in the Canterbury Land District declared to be a Fire District

WHEREAS by section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921-22, as amended by section 6 of the Forests Amendment Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), it is enacted that the Commissioner of State Forests, on application by any owner or occupier of land, may constitute by notice in the Gazette such land and any other land as a fire district for the purpose of securing the safety from damage by fire of any trees on any private or other lands of an area not less than 200 acres: And whereas the Christchurch City Council, being the owner of certain lands in the Waimairi County, exceeding the said area, has made application to me dated the 24th day of November, 1944, for the constitution of a fire district;

And whereas it appears expedient to grant the application:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said Act, I do hereby notify that on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry and the Land Board of the Canterbury Land District, the area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared by me to be a fire district, to be known as the Chaneys Fire District, for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked); and, with respect to the fire district constituted as aforesaid,

I do further specify the period from the 1st day of November in any year to the 30th day of April in the following year, inclusive, as the period during which it shall not be lawful for any person save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest Officer, to set on fire or cause to be set on fire any timber (whether standing or not), or any undergrowth, or any debris from forest operations or land-clearing operations, or any grass or other specially inflammable material without taking such precautions as may be prescribed by a Forest Officer.

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CANTERBURY CONSERVANCY Chaneys Fire District

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, Waimairi County, containing by admeasurement 4,450 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks III and IV, Christchurch Survey District, and Block XVI, Rangiora Survey District, and bounded by a line commencing at a point on the south-western side of Marshland Road in line with the south-eastern boundary of the Main North Railway land; thence in a north-easterly direction by a right line to and along the said south-eastern boundary of the Main North Railway land to the right bank of Stewart’s Gully; thence north-easterly along the right bank of Stewart’s Gully aforesaid; thence southerly along the right bank of the Waimakariri River to a point in line with the south-eastern side of Heyder’s Road opposite the northernmost corner of Spencer Park; thence south-westerly by a right line to and along the said south-eastern side of Heyder’s Road to its junction with the Lower Styx Road; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern side of that road to a point in line with the north-eastern boundary of Lot 2 on plan No. 4047, deposited in the Canterbury District Land Registry Office at Christchurch; thence north-westerly by a right line across the Styx River and road reserve, to and along the said north-eastern boundary of Lot 2 on plan No. 4047, deposited as aforesaid, to the south-western side of Teape’s Road; thence north-westerly along the south-western side and south-westerly generally along the south-eastern side of that road to Marshland Road aforesaid; thence north-westerly along the south-western side of that road to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on Plan 144/2, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1945.

B. ROBERTS, For the Commissioner of State Forests.

(S.F. 12/8/6/9.)